Trump Administration Just Banned Climate Change Terminology in the USDA

j daniel benson
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

According to reporting by The Guardian, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently banned the use of climate change nomenclature in agency business. In lieu of climate change phraseology, the agency directed employees to use climate-neutral terms like “weather extremes.”


President Trump is a Vocal Critic of Climate Change

President Trump wasn’t always such a fervent climate denier. In 2009, Trump and his children signed a letter to President Obama urgently calling for a global climate deal. In part, the letter read:

“If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.”

However, it wasn’t long before Trump began publicly criticizing climate change as a hoax. His favorite argument against climate change was the fact that it was really cold in winter.

In 2015, Trump appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show said he wasn’t “a believer in man-made global warming.”

President Trump is Quietly Purging His Administration of Any Mention of Climate Change

Since taking office, President Trump has expunged references to climate change from federal government websites. He removed an entire section of the White House website that contained climate change content. A section on climate change on the Department of the Interior website was deleted. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed the climate change section of its official website.

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